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DJ Tisto
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The 45-year-old Dutchman is ...

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Dr. Dog, sans beanies.
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Here's a selection of the best comments we received from music writers who voted in this year's Pazz & Jop music poll. Thank you to all of our music writers who participated this year for voting and for sharing the comments below!
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Nirvana
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On her fifth studio album, 1989, Taylor Swift swapped the steel-string t...

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Nicki Minaj, Taylor Swift, and Sia.
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Jeezy
In the early days of 2011, Snoop Dogg and E-40 set Young Jeezy up.
In the middle of shooting Snoop's new video, "My Fucn House," the two California hip-hop veterans casually sat down the Atlanta trap rapper, who was in the midst of a caree...

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The one the Voice can definitely take credit for is the recruiting initiative that pushed the voter count -- which had been in decline for a couple years -- back over 600. But luck came in the form of the December 15
release of D'Angelo's Black Mess...

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Run the Jewels
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Jehnny Beth delivers something pure...something new.
Better than: Any other punk band's "bluesy" phase
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Start your week with Tanya Tagaq at Joe's Pub.
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Monday, January 11...

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Everybody loves year-end lists, but only the Village Voice gives you the list to end all lists: the Pazz & Jop critics poll, America's definitive music countdown. Every year since 1974, the Voice has polled the nation's most influential tastemakers, ...

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Holed up in Williamsburg, the producer Loveskills creates emotional electro-tinged ballads. After dropping the six-track Pure EP late last year on the No Shame label, he's now released a woozy and endearingly hazy video for the track "Chanel." Ah...

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See Future Islands on Friday at Terminal 5.
For more shows throughout the week, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which we update daily.Friday, 1/9
Dr. Dog
Music Hall of Williamsburg
8 p.m., $25-$35
Between those groovy guitar riffs, that b...

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The Village Voice is pleased to announce that Hilary Hughes will join the staff as music editor on February 2.
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[Editor's note: Every Wednesday, New York City's own Andrew W.K. takes your life questions and sets you safely down the right path to a solution, a purpose, or -- no surprise here -- a party. Need his help? Just ask: AskAWK@villagevoice.com]
Dear An...

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The Vans
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25-year veteran Simpsons writer Mike Reiss tells Springfield stories at the PIT this Thursday.
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Correction published 1/8/2015: As Philadelphia magazine has pointed out, the introductory paragraph of this story contained erroneous information. On December 5, 2014, United States District Court Judge Felipe Restrepo granted Christopher Roney, a/k/...

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Dial-A-Song returns!
(844) 387-6962: It's not a number scrawled on a bathroom stall, a wayward Tinder message, or some cruise company telling you you've won a free trip to the West Indies on the Caribbean Delight. These ten digits are the updated ...